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Don Carlo
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, March 11, 1992
Debut : Samuel Cristler
In Italian
Don Carlo (157)
Giuseppe Verdi | Fran?ois Joseph M?ry/Camille du Locle list Italian text as translators?
- Don Carlo
- Michael Sylvester
- Elizabeth of Valois
- Aprile Millo
- Rodrigo
- Vladimir Chernov
- Princess Eboli
- Dolora Zajick
- Philip II
- Samuel Ramey
- Grand Inquisitor
- Sergei Koptchak
- Celestial Voice
- Hei-Kyung Hong
- Friar
- Jeffrey Wells
- Tebaldo
- Jane Bunnell
- Forester
- Kevin Short
- Count of Lerma
- John Horton Murray
- Countess of Aremberg
- Barbara Greene
- Herald
- Charles Anthony
- Conductor
- Samuel Cristler [Debut]
Review 1:
Martin Mayer in Opera (UK)
Finally, the Met revived its bargain basement ?Don Carlo,? produced during 1970s financial crunch (the stage band offstage to save costumes, for instance) made it dramatically convincing for the first time in my experience. The star was Dolora Zajick as the biggest-voiced Eboli I have heard since (excuse me) Stignani, Vladimir Chernov as a splendidly lyrical Posa, and Samuel Ramey assured Philip II. Aprile Millo sang Elisabetta handsomely, and she has moderated her transports considerably as an actress, but this is an opera in which the characters must relate to one another, and she was much the same with all the protagonists. She also fussed over ?Tu the le vanita.? I wish someone would teach sopranos that it is possible to be almost stock still through the whole of that long aria (Maria Callas moved exactly three times, each a small step forward to tighten her grip on the audience). Michael Sylvester was our Carlo, a young American tenor of considerable range, force and musicality, better known in Europe than here, who will be a rival to anyone when he develops a mezza voce.
Levine was listed to conduct, but had the flu, and Samuel Cristler (who had been scheduled to do the work later in the run) made his debut on the Met podium on March 11. He gave a musical performance of some individuality, bright and lively and Hispanic in the garden scene, and monumental in the auto-da-f?. A former cellist, he had the cello really dig into its attack in the prelude to Philip's big aria. His beat was clear, and he really listened to the singers. An impressive beginning.
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- Samuel Cristler [Conductor]
- Michael Sylvester [Don Carlo]
- Aprile Millo [Elizabeth of Valois]
- Vladimir Chernov [Rodrigo]
- Dolora Zajick [Princess Eboli]
- Samuel Ramey [Philip II]
- Sergei Koptchak [Grand Inquisitor]
- Hei-Kyung Hong [Celestial Voice]
- Jeffrey Wells [Friar]
- Jane Bunnell [Tebaldo]
- Kevin Short [Forester]
- John Horton Murray [Count of Lerma]
- Barbara Greene [Countess of Aremberg]
- Charles Anthony [Herald]